Discuss the restrictions placed on Jews after the Fourth Lateran Council
What will be an ideal response?
The council's pronouncements included restrictions on Jews living in western Europe. The intention of the council was to delineate what it meant to be Christian, and this led to a distinction of identification between Christians and non-Christians. Pope Innocent III issued the decree that Jews (and Muslims) must wear specifically identifying clothing to mark themselves as separate from Christians. Because many believed that only Christians could have authority over other Christians, Jews were prohibited from holding public office. Part of the thirteenth century was spent rooting out heretics, and so the council included the mandate that Jews and Muslims who had converted to Catholicism could not return to their previous religion. All of these factors had the effect of marginalizing and restricting the Jewish population. These restrictions would increase in the future and were a sign of things to come, most notably the expulsion of Jews from Christian countries.
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